Luke
@matherlu.bsky.social
Arsenal, Chicago Bears and Golf - I live a simple life!
Gary Neville spent an hour gaslighting me that this was some sort of genius masterplan! Booom!
February 3, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Gary Neville spent an hour gaslighting me that this was some sort of genius masterplan! Booom!
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if you're still driving a tesla, give your head a wobble
January 8, 2026 at 3:13 PM
if you're still driving a tesla, give your head a wobble
@neiljennings.bsky.social I found this interview interesting if you wanted to spare an hour!
Really enjoyed this exchange between @harrytlambert.bsky.social and @iandunt.bsky.social. Includes whether Liberalism sits easily with democracy e.g. when the public is tilting towards positions, as now, that Liberals disapprove of.
substack.com/@harrytlambe...
substack.com/@harrytlambe...
How a liberal thinks
Ian Dunt – author, journalist, arch liberal – reckons with asylum, immigration, democracy, a PM that failed him, and a world where liberalism is on the wane.
substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
@neiljennings.bsky.social I found this interview interesting if you wanted to spare an hour!
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Imagine the right-wing reaction if Starmer or Biden had proposed something like this
Citizens of countries including the UK and France will have to disclose the past five years of their social media history to visit the US even though they are covered by visa waiver schemes, under new proposals by the Trump administration.
www.ft.com/content/683b...
www.ft.com/content/683b...
US to require social media disclosure for visa-waiver requests
Change would affect visitors from countries including the UK, France and Australia
www.ft.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Imagine the right-wing reaction if Starmer or Biden had proposed something like this
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The main reason I have so much faith in Arteta is because I can see what I am watching. But his comments are always a strong secondary reason for me too.
May 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The main reason I have so much faith in Arteta is because I can see what I am watching. But his comments are always a strong secondary reason for me too.
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The way the team is coached to dominate opponents is elite. They just need to buy a couple more players who can stick it in the net more reliably (and hope that their two CFs don’t get injured at the same time again).
May 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The way the team is coached to dominate opponents is elite. They just need to buy a couple more players who can stick it in the net more reliably (and hope that their two CFs don’t get injured at the same time again).
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Honestly just does my head in. Serious foul play is one of the few flawless and totally acceptable ways to use VAR and they just don’t bother. Player safety a total non issue for PGMOL but trivial nonsense is fussed over endlessly. Really badly just want Webb to go.
If VAR isn't upgrading Tarkowski's challenge, then the bar is simply too low.
You should not be able to 'tackle' like that. Period.
You should not be able to 'tackle' like that. Period.
April 2, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Honestly just does my head in. Serious foul play is one of the few flawless and totally acceptable ways to use VAR and they just don’t bother. Player safety a total non issue for PGMOL but trivial nonsense is fussed over endlessly. Really badly just want Webb to go.
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I'm so tired of Trump's face, his voice, his ridiculous words, his nutty cabinet members, his awful voters, his imploding country. This 24/7 rolling atrocity of a presidency that poisons the entire world.
March 19, 2025 at 10:09 AM
I'm so tired of Trump's face, his voice, his ridiculous words, his nutty cabinet members, his awful voters, his imploding country. This 24/7 rolling atrocity of a presidency that poisons the entire world.
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This place still feels a bit small, not football focused, but maybe we could try and connect Arsenal fans at least.
If you are an Arsenal fan, leave a reply, people can follow, also please repost or whatever it's called her and hopefully it can spread. #arsenal
If you are an Arsenal fan, leave a reply, people can follow, also please repost or whatever it's called her and hopefully it can spread. #arsenal
November 9, 2024 at 10:42 PM
This place still feels a bit small, not football focused, but maybe we could try and connect Arsenal fans at least.
If you are an Arsenal fan, leave a reply, people can follow, also please repost or whatever it's called her and hopefully it can spread. #arsenal
If you are an Arsenal fan, leave a reply, people can follow, also please repost or whatever it's called her and hopefully it can spread. #arsenal
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So many things that have been introduced to football of late have made it less fun. The Lewis-Skelly/getting huffy over celebrations thing being the latest.
It’s supposed to be fun. Stop making football less fun.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/611...
It’s supposed to be fun. Stop making football less fun.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/611...
Stop making football less fun. Please
Football is meant to be fun. As minor as it seems, solemnly tutting at or punishing a player for mocking in celebrations, chips away at that
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 8:10 AM
So many things that have been introduced to football of late have made it less fun. The Lewis-Skelly/getting huffy over celebrations thing being the latest.
It’s supposed to be fun. Stop making football less fun.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/611...
It’s supposed to be fun. Stop making football less fun.
www.nytimes.com/athletic/611...
My longest ever wait for an underground train. 14 mins. 14 mins!!!!
February 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
My longest ever wait for an underground train. 14 mins. 14 mins!!!!
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Color me not surprised
Forest player just accidentally headed Danny Welbeck's head and it's not a penalty....
February 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Color me not surprised
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When Lamina was sent off the whole away end still sang ‘Michael Oliver it’s all about you.’ Football fans are sick and tired of these remedial individuals ruining games and making it all about them. Both red cards did not need to happen at all. So fucking sick of it.
January 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
When Lamina was sent off the whole away end still sang ‘Michael Oliver it’s all about you.’ Football fans are sick and tired of these remedial individuals ruining games and making it all about them. Both red cards did not need to happen at all. So fucking sick of it.
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5Live experts on Lewis-Skelly red card:
Pat Nevin: “a bar so low even a limbo dancing snake couldn’t get under it…”
Mark Chapman: “baffling and nonsensical from supposedly one of our best referees.”
I don't think anyone except VAR or Michael Oliver thought that was a red.
Pat Nevin: “a bar so low even a limbo dancing snake couldn’t get under it…”
Mark Chapman: “baffling and nonsensical from supposedly one of our best referees.”
I don't think anyone except VAR or Michael Oliver thought that was a red.
January 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
5Live experts on Lewis-Skelly red card:
Pat Nevin: “a bar so low even a limbo dancing snake couldn’t get under it…”
Mark Chapman: “baffling and nonsensical from supposedly one of our best referees.”
I don't think anyone except VAR or Michael Oliver thought that was a red.
Pat Nevin: “a bar so low even a limbo dancing snake couldn’t get under it…”
Mark Chapman: “baffling and nonsensical from supposedly one of our best referees.”
I don't think anyone except VAR or Michael Oliver thought that was a red.
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What is the point of trying to analyse a game of football when a referee does that?
I'm sorry, but you cannot convince me that's anything other than an utterly corrupt decision from an official who has done this to us before - AT THIS VERY GROUND.
PGMOL and Oliver can just fuck off.
I'm sorry, but you cannot convince me that's anything other than an utterly corrupt decision from an official who has done this to us before - AT THIS VERY GROUND.
PGMOL and Oliver can just fuck off.
January 25, 2025 at 3:54 PM
What is the point of trying to analyse a game of football when a referee does that?
I'm sorry, but you cannot convince me that's anything other than an utterly corrupt decision from an official who has done this to us before - AT THIS VERY GROUND.
PGMOL and Oliver can just fuck off.
I'm sorry, but you cannot convince me that's anything other than an utterly corrupt decision from an official who has done this to us before - AT THIS VERY GROUND.
PGMOL and Oliver can just fuck off.
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This is 100% right, I've said it so often. The reason PGMOL are so soft on violent conduct can only be a directive from the top, and when some player suffers a terrible injury, they won't take any responsibility.
Then they use media chums to gaslight us over bullshit red cards for trivial shit.
Then they use media chums to gaslight us over bullshit red cards for trivial shit.
Howard Webb instructing referees and VAR to ignore serious foul play should lose him his job. Utterly appalling.
December 21, 2024 at 9:11 PM
This is 100% right, I've said it so often. The reason PGMOL are so soft on violent conduct can only be a directive from the top, and when some player suffers a terrible injury, they won't take any responsibility.
Then they use media chums to gaslight us over bullshit red cards for trivial shit.
Then they use media chums to gaslight us over bullshit red cards for trivial shit.